and the ball is more likely to make contact with the bat’s thickest section, leading to a more solid hit. A traditional baseball bat has a skinny handle that flares into a barrel of about the ...

We’ve seen our fair share of broken-bat hits in baseball. What happened in Wednesday’s Double-A matchup between the Columbus ...

Perfectly named bat, really. Groh’s career took place both immediately before and after Baseball’s Deadball era, and since the ball in that time was practically made out of rolled up socks and ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage in Major League Baseball ... ball and therefore the mass shouldn't be there. And that this universal claim that it's good to take away mass from the barrel end of the ...

Torpedo bats change the distribution of the ... of baseball, though that isn’t the same thing. The business of baseball benefits from more offense because chicks dig the long ball and all ...

"Major League Baseball, they're so big into analytics. They look at every player, they look at where they're hitting the ball on the bat and so yes, for certain players that are hitting the ball more ...

From Moneyball to analytics to torpedo bats, MLB teams are desperate for an edge and will look for one in every nook and cranny.

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball ... ball. "If they're making contact at the same place in the barrel all the time, what can we do about the bat ...

Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball’s latest fad and ... where he said the balance was better, the ball sounded more crisp off the bat, the left-handed hitter ordered on the spot ...

"When you look at the design of a classic baseball bat, the physics just don't add up," said Pritchard. "When the ball comes in and hits the sweet spot, it bends the bat and so some of the energy ...